Package org.geotools.referencing Description

Reference systems implementation. An
explanation for this package is provided in the OpenGIS® javadoc.
The remaining discussion on this page is specific to the Geotools implementation.

This package provides implementations for general positioning, coordinate
reference systems (CRS), and coordinate transformations. Coordinates can have any number of
dimensions. So this implementation can handle 2D and 3D coordinates, as well as 4D, 5D,
etc.

All factory methods are capable to find an object using an
unscoped (or local) name. However, in order to avoid potential conflict, it is
recommanded to use scoped name when possible. For example even if both can work,
prefer "EPSG:9624" instead of "9624" for the affine transform in order to avoid
potential conflict with an other authority using the same code number.

Command-line tools

A set of command lines tools is provided for performing queries.
The tools are implemented in the main method of some key classes. The
tools are:

FactoryFinder

Lists registered factories found in the class path (not only Geotools implementations).